TY - BOOK AU - Menon,V.P TI - The story of the integration of the Indian States: wit an Introduction by Asha Sarangi SN - 9788125054511 U1 - 320.954 PY - 2014/// CY - India PB - Orient Blackwan Pvt.Ltd. KW - India KW - State governments KW - Constitutional history KW - Politics and government KW - Federal government N1 - 1. Setting the stage -- 2. Spokes in the wheel -- 3. The parting gift -- 4. Prelude to chaos -- 5. Stopping the gap -- 6. Junagadh -- 7. The Orissa and Chattisgarh states -- 8. Saurashtra -- 9. The Deccan and Gujarat states -- 10. Vindhya Pradesh -- 11. Madhya Bharat -- 12. Patiala and East Punjab States Union -- 13. Rajasthan -- 14. Travancore-Cochin -- 15. Mysore -- 16. A miscellany of states -- 17. Hyderabad I -- 18. Hyderabad II -- 19. Hyderabad III -- 20. Jammu and Kashmir state -- 21. Baroda -- 22. I Administrative consolidation -- II Incorporation of the states forces into the Indian army -- 23. Financial integration -- 24. Organic unification -- 25. The cost of integration -- 26. Retrospect and prospect ER -